Events Calendar

All November Events

A panel discussion in connection with "New, Four: Kansas City Art Institute Faculty Biennial" will take place from 7 to 8 p.m. Nov. 6 in the upstairs gallery of the H&R Block Artspace, 16 E. 43rd St. The theme for the discussion is "Method," and the moderator will be Brett Reif, associate professor and director of the School of the Foundation Year at KCAI. Participating on the panel will be:

Maura Cluthe, instructor, illustration

Marie Bannerot McInerney, assistant professor, fiber

Kelly John Clark, lecturer, printmaking

Each panelist will discuss their work and its relationship to the theme, and the moderator will ask questions as well as field questions from the audience.

Save the date for additional panel discussions at noon on Nov. 15 and Nov. 22.

Lisa Saltzman is professor of history of art at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in modern and contemporary art and theory. Saltzman received a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University in 1988 and a Ph.D. degree from Harvard University in 1994. She has received fellowships from the DAAD, the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, the Clark Art Institute, and the Guggenheim Foundation.

Saltzman is the author of "Anselm Kiefer and Art after Auschwitz" (1999) and "Making Memory Matter: Strategies of Remembrance in Contemporary Art" (2006). She is also the co-editor, with Eric Rosenberg, of "Trauma and Visuality in Modernity" (2006). Drawing on materials from her new book, "Daguerreotypes: Fugitive Subjects, Contemporary Objects," forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press, Saltzman will talk about the aesthetics and ethics of contemporary art photography. Among the artists she will discuss are Jeff Wall, James Casebere, Thomas Demand, Gregory Crewdson and An-My Lê.

The lecture will take place in Epperson Auditorium, which is located in Vanderslice Hall on the KCAI campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Current Perspectives lecture: Satch Hoyt - 7:00 PM

Berlin-based, international artist Satch Hoyt creates immersive installations and sculptures. With experience as a sound composer and musician, Hoyt often uses sound to create a multi-sensory experience within his artwork. His exhibitions and projects have been showcased around the world.

Hoyt has recorded sound and music projects with Louise Bourgeois, Grace Jones and other artists. He is a member of Greg Tate's band, Burnt Sugar.

The lecture will take place in Epperson Auditorium, which is located in Vanderslice Hall on the KCAI campus. The event is free and open to the public. His appearance at KCAI is co-sponsored by the H&R Block Artspace at KCAI.

A panel discussion in connection with "New, Four: Kansas City Art Institute Faculty Biennial" will take place from noon to 1 p.m. Nov. 15 in the upstairs gallery of the H&R Block Artspace, 16 E. 43rd St. The theme for this T.N.T. (The Noon Thing) discussion is "Inspiration," and the moderator will be Rebecca Dubay, assistant professor in the School of Liberal Arts. Participating on the panel will be:

Stephen Erin Dinehart IV, assistant professor, digital media

Carla Malone Steck, special instructor in the School of the Foundation Year

Jill Downen, assistant professor, scupture

John Ferry, assistant professor, illustration

Each panelist will discuss their work and its relationship to the theme, and the moderator will ask questions as well as field questions from the audience.

T.J. Jarrett is a writer and software developer in Nashville. Her recent work has been published or is forthcoming in African American Review, Boston Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Boxcar Poetry Review, Callaloo, DIAGRAM, Ninth Letter, Linebreak, Rattle, Southern Poetry Anthology, Third Coast, West Branch and others. Her debut collection "Ain’t No Grave" was published with New Issues Press in the fall of 2013. Her second collection "Zion" (winner of the Crab Orchard Open Competition 2013) will be published by Southern Illinois University Press in the fall of 2014.

Scott Garson is the author of "Is That You, John Wayne?, a collection of stories and "America Gymnopedies," a book of microfictions. His fiction has won awards from Playboy, The Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation and Dzanc Books, and he has work in or coming from Kenyon Review, American Short Fiction, Hobart, Conjunctions, New York Tyrant and others. He edits the Pushcart-Prize-winning journal of very short fiction, Wigleaf.

Gina Myers is the author of two full-length poetry collections, "Hold It Down" (Coconut Books, 2013) and "A Model Year" (Coconut Books, 2009), as well as numerous chapbooks. Originally from Saginaw, Mich., she now lives in Atlanta, where she helps run the "What's New in Poetry?" series at Emory University.

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Current Perspectives lecture: Ross Sawyers - 7:00 PM

Ross Sawyers ('03 photography) began his career as an educator teaching photography at KCAI and then at the University of Washington in Seattle and the University of California-Riverside. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is included in numerous public and private collections.

Sawyers holds an M.F.A. degree in photography from the University of Washington and a B.F.A. degree in photography from KCAI. He lives in Chiago, where he is an assistant professor of photography at Columbia College Chicago.

The lecture will take place in Epperson Auditorium, which is located in Vanderslice Hall on the KCAI campus. The event is free and open to the public. His appearance at KCAI is sponsored by the photography and digital filmmaking departments.

A panel discussion in connection with "New, Four: Kansas City Art Institute Faculty Biennial" will take place from noon to 1 p.m. Nov. 22 in the upstairs gallery of the H&R Block Artspace, 16 E. 43rd St. The theme for the T.N.T. (The Noon Thing) discussion is "Location," and the moderator will be artist Garry Noland. Participating on the panel will be:

Jonah Criswell, special instructor, painting

Caleb Taylor, special instructor, School of the Foundation Year

Christoph Steger, assistant professor, animation

Each panelist will discuss their work and its relationship to the theme, and the moderator will ask questions as well as field questions from the audience.